Instantiating a Cloud Workstation with large amount of RAM

[jvdb]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a Cloud Workstation instantiated with at least 128GB of RAM, but preferably 256GB or more for some specialized development and testing. I'd like to use Cloud Workstation because I use IntelliJ and that works well with it.

However, it seems I have a quota of 24 vCPUs in all regions and in order to be able to get a lot of RAM I need to be able to instantiate at least a 32 vCPU-machine. I've tried requesting a quota increase but it got instantly and automatically rejected?

Furthermore, it seems there are not much types of machines to choose from? I don't see any of the highmem-machines in the configuration settings for Cloud Workstation, or are there very specific regions/zones that have those?

(I'm working on an account that has billing and everything enabled and it's even swimming in credits because we're in the startup program, so I can't really imagine that this account is being throttled because of worries we won't pay?)

[robertcarlos]

Hi @jvdb,

Welcome to Google Cloud Community!

Please be advised that machine type configuration is fixed and you may only select the machine type, preconfigured with a fixed number of CPU and RAM. Please check this documentation on available machine types for Cloud Workstations.

The nearest machine types I could recommend for your preferred setup are n2d-highmem-16 (16 vCPU, 128 GB) and n2d-highmem-32 (32 vCPU, 256 GB). Configuration is not yet available in Google Cloud Console UI, rather it is only available using Cloud Shell. Please refer to this documentation on creating Workstations using Cloud Shell.

Your code should look something similar like this:

gcloud workstations configs create CONFIG --machine-type=n2d-highmem-16

gcloud workstations configs create CONFIG --machine-type=n2d-highmem-32

Hope this helps.